Fawn Morgan comes from a family of educators who are all life-long learners. One grandmother was an elementary school teacher, one a genealogical researcher, and both her grandfathers were in the newspaper business. Her father and two brothers were teacher/principals. Fawn graduated from USU as an English major with an Instructional Media minor and a secondary teaching certificate. Her favorite Christmas present ever was a set of World Book Encyclopedia when she was twelve.

Layton High Library is filled with light after decades of inhabiting a bat-cave-like room, they now enjoy a new HUGE library with lots of natural light, multiple use seating, super sound system, and lots of up-to-date technology. They still have room for books and a museum of antique equipment. Layton High has a culturally diverse population and a supportive faculty which allows their teaching library to thrive. Last year the library averaged over 5,000 patrons a month, most of which, obviously, are students. See bottom left for information about the beautiful ceramic wall in the library.

Layton High Library hosts the Realms Club (medieval battle-role play), Board Games Club (we have a giant chess set in the library) and the occasional Anime Club (interests with anything anime or manga). At the time of this interview, there was a ring set up in the library for Robot Wars.

Fawn usually has a stack of books and a Nook at her bedside. She is a newspaper addict, requiring that she reads at least one cover to cover daily. She is currently reading The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory and The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley.

The books that made the most long lasting impact on Fawn are: Nancy Drew series, The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Kim by Rudyard Kipling, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Her favorite contemporary genres are historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.

Fawns hopes for the library “To maintain currency both in its collection and technology – that’s going to be difficult if the economy and legislative viewpoint don’t improve. I hope to uphold a tradition of a warm and inviting atmosphere, one with lots of laughter, inquiry and learning.”

Over the past year Fawn has put in many volunteer hours serving on a committee which created a proposal to update the Utah Secondary Library Media Core Curriculum. The update team was composed of six members: Sharyl Smith, Cindy Dunn, Cynthia Moyle, Fawn Morgan, Julie Atwood, and Sarah Herron. More than a dozen professionals statewide served as readers.